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“There should be serious readiness in the field of cyber warfare and the relevant agencies must not allow the enemy to follow their unflattering goals to create problems in the trend of people’s lives,” Raisi said. .
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Abolhassan Firouzabadi, secretary of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, linked the attack to another attack targeting Iran’s rail system in July. “It is possible that the attack, as before on the railway system, was carried out from abroad,” Firouzabadi said. He added that an investigation into the incident was ongoing.
The cyberattack in Iran affected 4,300 gas stations in the country. Several gas stations remained paralyzed as of Wednesday. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack that began Tuesday, although it bears similarities to previous months.
Tuesday’s attack rendered the government-issued electronic cards that many Iranians use to buy subsidized fuel at gas stations useless. The semi-official ISNA news agency, which first described the incident as a cyberattack, said it saw Iranians trying to buy fuel with a government-issued card through a machine instead of receiving a message that read “cyber attack 64411.”
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Farsi-language satellite channels abroad published a video apparently shot by the driver in Isfahan, a major Iranian city. The video shows an electronic billboard there that reads: “Khamenei! Where’s our gas?” Another said: “Free gas at the Jamaran gas station,” referring to the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s home.
The use of the number “64411” reflects an attack in July targeting Iran’s rail system that also displayed the number. Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point later linked the train attack to a group of hackers calling themselves Indra, after the Hindu god of war.
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